‘Shameless wreckers’ at the front of today’s protest

THERE is one group of establishment country-wreckers that has managed completely to evade any kind of accountability for bringing this country to ruin.

They’ll be parading their shamelessness at the head of a march around the streets of Dublin today. ICTU, the masters of brilliant disguise, are now presenting themselves as defenders of the disenfranchised when only a short while ago they were inseparable from the franchised Irish establishment ‘royalty’.

How quickly SIPTU’S Jack O’Connor and Shay Cody of IMPACT remember to forget their former friends in government. The proverbial cock had hardly crowed two-and-a-half times when the ICTU generalissimos turned on their blood brothers in Fianna Fáil. SIPTU and IMPACT, let us never forget, fought like Celtic tigers to ensure thousands of useless executives in the health boards retained lofty positions when the HSE was established, utilising their best friend forever, Bertie Ahern, as their ‘man in the inside’.